Monday, May 31, 2010

Parts List

Many of you want to know about the parts I used to build this. Here they are with prices (not including shipping). The total build price is $652. This doesn't include the new battery pack I am building which cost about $65 and should double the battery life.

Just an idea. If you want a much better LCD than the LCD that ships with the X320 and 99% of other laptops these days, consider replacing it by the Hydis HV133WX1 LCD. Still LED backlit, same resolution and size - but AFFS (IPS variant) which implies high color fidelity and wide viewing angles.

This whole concept of building your own tablet is unbelievably incredible. You have gotta post some sort of rough instructions for this build. I've been in the market for a tablet for a while now....but this...this has just opened a door for me. Very cool!

A how-to-build-it guide would be great. Did you just disconnect the screen and flip it around and replace the keyboard and other pieces on the front with it? If so then what did you do with the power button? Do the side ports still work?

wow omg dude thanks for responding i think you started a revolution lol but on important question, i see that your tablet is 13.4 inch while the link for the touch screen is 15 inch... what happened to the rest

Wow, this is indeed amazing and I'm quite sure I'll have to try this over the coming summer holidays. If you could post a tutorial and/or more information, that would of course be great.However, I can see that writing a detailed tutorial might take more time then the build itself. Maybe you could just highlight important things that might be missed or problems you ran into while building it (so we can avoid those).

Hey, Great Job! Like others have said, a quick build guide would be awesome, but I suppose making one takes months by itself. On the other hand, you should definitely patent what you can and then sell it on eBay or something.

Regardless, I was looking at the parts and it said you used a resistive touch screen, which only supports single touch. I was wondering why not use a capacitative screen, like one from:

if you can make the mold. everything else is easy, just get a mobo off your laptop, use the laptop screen and buy a resistive screen to put over it, or a multitouch one, you can use normal hdd that came twith the laptop etc, like i said its no big deal, still its very cool and i might think off building one myself

Did you use the 15" widescreen or normal 15"?Also do you think this laptop would be suitablehttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ADVENT-VERONA-250GB-HDD-CELERON-3GB-NETBOOK-WIN-7-13-3-/230508376029?pt=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item35ab5eafdd#ht_2716wt_1137?

I'm about to buy the same touch screen, but I have a question. As I'm going to write on the screen with a stylus, I would like to know if it is precise enough, for example, to write on it just like on a paper sheet ?

I believe your invention is the key to a Prov. patented idea I've had since 2007. I would love to discuss with you more in detail of what it is. can you contact me at cmerritt3@gmail.com This is amazing. Great work.

do you now if i can use a beter ssd and put a ext. fan on the back with a cd drive in it and a beter graphic card in it to play pc games on the go ? a dissembul video would be very appreacitve would you consider these upgrades for it could i use a diffrent mother board and can it be from a desk top per haps or beter + do you think i could get a 1 terabite in it for memory or 500 gb hard drive ?

@Jerome and justfoschoolIf you look at the pics, it looks like he used the bottom part for the body of a laptop and sealed it together with the carbon fiber. For the mother drive, hard drive and disk drive upgrades, I think you're better off keeping the disc drive external because it's bulky and hardly used these days (just get digital copies or make disc rips to keep it out of the tablet so you can reduce size and weight) for the mother board, stay with laptop parts because they're designed for minimalistic size while maintaining almost identical performance to a desktop. But for the hard drive I'm pretty sure you can rewire in a bigger one but honestly why don't you go with flash drives? They're faster, lighter and have fairly large storage capacities ex. Micro sds are now 32 gb

@ Anonymous - I started building this before the iPad was even announced...and at that time Windows tablets were $2000+. Also, you must not understand the concept of DIY. It's all about the accomplishment of building something yourself.